Rossdale Co. stock currently sells for $72.65 per share and has a beta of 1.21. The market risk premium is 7.20 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.94 percent annually. The company just paid a dividend of $4.25 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.55 percent indefinitely. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity?